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Modern Talking ....
Posted: Sun 20 Jan 2008, 2:04 am
by redsock
Just been browsing through all the old groups I remember from the 80's on YouTube, great fun and very nostalgic.
Anyway .... Modern Talking ...... is it really one of them singing ? Supposedly it's Thomas Anders (the long dark haired one) but I still think over 20 years later that it really sounds like a woman singing.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ect3VoEUJn8
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y7c1_gK8 ... re=related
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vDB3BGquV ... re=related
I know there was a bit of a funny situation with many 70's and 80's German groups not doing their own stuff (Boney M, Milli Vanilli etc ...) were Modern Talking the same ?
Posted: Sun 20 Jan 2008, 8:24 am
by BlueSwan
No. Thomas Anders WAS the singer. Anyway, it doesn't even sound remotely like a woman. Just because it's high-pitched doesn't make it female sounding.
Posted: Sun 20 Jan 2008, 12:15 pm
by Vince
Ooh.. that voice is so much like a woman's.. love it though..
I only liked few songs by them.. Cherie Cherie Lady, Brother Louie, Geronimo's Cadillac and a few more..
Anyway, i read that MT have sold more than 50 mil records worldwide? How is that possible? i didnt know they were that active?
Posted: Sun 20 Jan 2008, 12:30 pm
by Lush
I am not sure whether the 50 mil + number is accurate, but they have sold a lot of records, that's for sure. The Germans used to buy MT by the truckload.
Posted: Sun 20 Jan 2008, 2:17 pm
by redsock
BlueSwan wrote:No. Thomas Anders WAS the singer. Anyway, it doesn't even sound remotely like a woman. Just because it's high-pitched doesn't make it female sounding.
Cheers for clearing that up.
It's not the high pitched choruses I was referring to (which perversely sound like a mans falsetto to me), his voice is very ethereal sounding and sounds rather like an earthy womans voice, akin to Claudie Fritsch-Mentrop of Desireless fame.
Posted: Mon 21 Jan 2008, 5:39 pm
by so heart
Lush wrote:I am not sure whether the 50 mil + number is accurate, but they have sold a lot of records, that's for sure. The Germans used to buy MT by the truckload.
i'm afraid you are right. i'm the only one who managed to buy nothing of them. the partner of thomas anders, (the extraterrestrial smiling blonde one, dieter bohlen) now earns truckloads of money with casting shows in germany (kind of german idol).
Posted: Mon 21 Jan 2008, 9:13 pm
by Danger
I've always thought that the voice in You're My heart, You're My Soul was female... But it's not so. In Italy I've found on web a very cheap best of, I wanna know something more about them...
Posted: Mon 21 Jan 2008, 10:09 pm
by Radiophonic
My Other Half is a big fan, but with me they're a guilty pleasure (like ELO!) I like 'You Are Not Alone' (not the Jacko song) and 'For Always And Ever' at the minute.
Posted: Tue 22 Jan 2008, 3:36 pm
by BlueSwan
I quite like Modern Talking, but I prefer the stuff that Dieter Bohlen did with C.C.Catch.
Posted: Tue 22 Jan 2008, 11:38 pm
by Radiophonic
Bad Boys Blue. Was that one of Dieter Bohlen's post-MT projects? 'Love Is Such A Lonely Sword' or something?
Posted: Wed 23 Jan 2008, 9:25 am
by Parkol
Modern Talking was quite popular in Russia, but I like their two songs.
Posted: Wed 23 Jan 2008, 3:04 pm
by BlueSwan
Radiophonic wrote:Bad Boys Blue. Was that one of Dieter Bohlen's post-MT projects? 'Love Is Such A Lonely Sword' or something?
Bohlen never did anything with Bad Boys Blue, but Bad Boys Blue did to a certain extent imitate the Modern Talking style of high-pitched post-choruses. BTW, I MUCH prefer Bad Boys Blue to Modern Talking. BBB have recorded at least 25 outstanding pop songs.
Posted: Wed 23 Jan 2008, 6:59 pm
by Radiophonic
BlueSwan wrote:Radiophonic wrote:Bad Boys Blue. Was that one of Dieter Bohlen's post-MT projects? 'Love Is Such A Lonely Sword' or something?
Bohlen never did anything with Bad Boys Blue, but Bad Boys Blue did to a certain extent imitate the Modern Talking style of high-pitched post-choruses. BTW, I MUCH prefer Bad Boys Blue to Modern Talking. BBB have recorded at least 25 outstanding pop songs.
Aplogies - not Bad Boys Blue (who I also liked) I was thinking of Blue System. Ah, memories.... Fancy, Lian Ross....
Posted: Wed 23 Jan 2008, 8:49 pm
by Lush
BlueSwan wrote:I quite like Modern Talking, but I prefer the stuff that Dieter Bohlen did with C.C.Catch.
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"House of Mystic Lights" was pure genious.
Posted: Fri 08 Feb 2008, 6:17 pm
by Danger
In the middle of this week it's arrived to me the Very Best Of Modern Talking, and I like it very much, I've discovered a good duo after all. I even like the new versions with the rapper Eric Singleton -even if they aren't in this album- and Last Exit For Brooklyn and New York City Girl (the ideal b-side of NYC Boy
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